Top 33 Leithauser Quotes
#1. I was staying at my friend's house and he told me about the drug Prednisone. It took me 14 years to discover it. And there are a lot of times that would have helped me out over the years. I can't believe I'd never even heard of it, though.
Hamilton Leithauser
#2. Traveling makes a vacation lose all appeal. You would never want to take the family to a European city. You travel a lot, but it's a job.
Hamilton Leithauser
#3. The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.
Hamilton Leithauser
#4. My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.
Hamilton Leithauser
#5. When we got to the step when we'd normally start collaborating, we started having these talks about how it was not worth getting together. Getting together just didn't feel very inspired, and doing it alone did.
Hamilton Leithauser
#6. When you're in your twenties you always think that 30 is a long ways off, and maybe you'll have things in line when you hit that number - maybe own a house or be married.
Hamilton Leithauser
#7. I feel really personally connected to all of the songs, so stepping back is really hard.
Hamilton Leithauser
#8. I write songs now I look at my strengths and I start there. In The Walkmen, we'd start with the live stuff.
Hamilton Leithauser
#9. Every great thing that has been accomplished, and is yet to be accomplished, starts with a dream.
Bill Courtney
#10. When you spend your whole life traveling it does get really tedious and exhausting.
Hamilton Leithauser
#11. You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.
Hamilton Leithauser
#12. I never want to travel while I'm on vacation anymore. The only vacations I want to take now are ones where I just go and sit somewhere.
Hamilton Leithauser
#13. I really don't feel as connected to Heaven as I do to the ones where I was there from start to finish. And on this record I was there for every moment.
Hamilton Leithauser
#14. Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements.
Max Wertheimer
#15. Everyone in Seattle is a total pussy when it comes to snow. The whole city shut down, the place looked like an apocalyptic movie.
Hamilton Leithauser
#16. If one were forced to select a single word to exemplify Bishop's peculiar charm and power, it might well be 'No.'
Brad Leithauser
#18. I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
Hamilton Leithauser
#19. The first ones I played were in New York at Joe's Pub; I played four shows, but I did something like 30 interviews and a couple radio shows in the mornings and completely blew out my voice. It kind of sucked.
Hamilton Leithauser
#20. I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.
Hamilton Leithauser
#21. I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something ...
Brad Leithauser
#22. You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.
Hamilton Leithauser
#23. Not wishing to blow my own trumpet, I'm as near to being the perfect dog owner as it is possible to be.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#24. I used to put the vocals on top and piece it together. Now I start with the vocals and the string parts I write; the drums are kind of an afterthought. And who knows, maybe that will get boring, but right now that's the most interesting way for me.
Hamilton Leithauser
#25. When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."
Hamilton Leithauser
#26. I was writing music when we finished the last Walkmen record, Heaven, and a few of these songs may have even been started before Heaven was done. With The Walkmen we all wrote a lot of stuff alone, but then we'd start collaborating with each other.
Hamilton Leithauser
#27. You look back and see pictures of yourself, or hear an old song, and you know where that came from or why you were working on that - but you don't want to do that again. You don't necessarily hate it, but you're a very different person now, so, in that way you do.
Hamilton Leithauser
#28. If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.
Brad Leithauser
#29. I think I got interested in singing without being too over-the-top. I was more calmly singing the words - which I thought had really come a long way. I thought they were worth singing clearly.
Hamilton Leithauser
#30. I'd rather be happily single than unhappily married.
Heather Graham
#31. When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.
Hamilton Leithauser
#33. While the Internet can't be controlled 100 percent, it's possible for governments to filter content and discourage people from organizing.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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